Topic: A Sip of Knowledge with Dave Broom, World Whisky Author

Hosts: Liz Rhoades, Lew Bryson, & Martin Duffy

What You’ll Learn: Join a trio of drink industry veterans in weekly conversation on whiskey, spirits, distilling, marketing and the current state of the drink industry. This week, Dave Broom joins the group.

About Dave Broom:

Dave Broom was born in Glasgow and has spent the past 30 years writing about alcohol. He spent 7 years as features editor on a UK drinks trade weekly then, after working a stage in an Australian winery, returned to the UK to specialise as a freelance writer on spirits.

He’s written 12 books, and his most recent, “The Way of Whisky: A Journey into Japanese Whisky’ was awarded the John Avery prize at the Andre Simon Awards in 2018. Prior to that, ‘Whisky: The Manual’ was awarded Best Spirits Book at the Spirited Awards in 2015 while his ‘World Atlas of Whisky’ has been called “a landmark publication”. 

As well as regular radio and TV work, in 2018/9, he wrote and presented the whisky culture documentary ‘The Amber Light’ (directed by Adam Park) which won the award for ‘Best Programme’ at the 2020 Fgortnum & Mason awards.

He has been contributing editor at both Whisky Magazine and scotchwhisky.com and continues to write for a large number of international titles.

The other part of his life is involved with training and talking. An in-demand speaker he regularly gives presentations at international whisky events. In addition he designs and helps run in-house training courses for distillers, and was one of the team which developed (and continues to maintain) the Single Malt Flavour Map. He also advises on spirit quality and new product development for a number of distillers around the world.

In 2013, he was awarded the Communicator of the Year at the ISWC awards and in 2015 was voted Best Spirits Writer at the Spirited Awards. He is a Master of the Quaich.

He lives in Hove with his wife, daughter and a menagerie of animals. When not doing all of the above, he hikes, tries to sail, and obsesses about music.

About the Hosts: 

• Liz Rhoades, founder of Spirit Safe Consulting, former research scientist for DIAGEO, distilling consultant, spirits writer for The Whiskey Wash & presenter.

• Lew Bryson, former managing editor for Whisky Advocate Magazine for 20 years, whiskey author, beer/whiskey writer and presenter.

• Martin Duffy, former DIAGEO Master of Whisky for the Midwest, DIAGEO Reserve Brand Ambassador for The Republic of Ireland, North American Brand Representative for Glencairn Crystal.